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The use of their songs in criminal cases has had dire consequences for hip-hop musicians.

Complex Original In October 2017, Lawrence Montague, a Maryland man incarcerated while awaiting trial for murder and gun-related charges, rapped a verse containing the following lyrics over a jail phone to a friend: “I’ll be playin’ the block bitch   And if you ever play with me  I’ll give you a dream, a couple shots snitch   It’s like hockey pucks the way I dish out this  It’s a .40 when that bitch goin’ hit up shit” According to court records, Montague’s friend warned ...